> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lars Engels
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:28 AM
> To: Ian Smith
> Cc: Bruce Cran; Alex Samorukov; Joe Holden; FreeBSD Stable Mailing List
> Subject: Re: New BSD Installer
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:15:17AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:32:51 +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > > On 2/10/2012 7:47 PM, Alex Samorukov wrote:
> > > > I am highly against reverting. Old installer is not GPT aware and in
> > fact
> > > > is unmaintained for a very long time.
> > >
> > > That's not really correct: quite a lot of work was done on it last year.
> >
> > Indeed. Was it you working on the updated sade(8) adding GPT and ZFS?
> >
> > <rant>
> >
> > I don't see it in terms of reverting. Much other useful functionality
> > of sysinstall has yet to be reimplemented.
>
> What exactly are you missing?
> There's sysutils/host-setup to configure your system like sysinstall
> did.
sysutils/host-setup (written/maintained by me) is only good for the following
bits right now:
1. Time zone
2. Hostname/Domain
3. Network Interfaces
4. Default Router/Gateway
5. DNS nameservers
There's still quite a bit more that sysinstall(8) offered which isn't provided
by anything yet (sysutils/host-setup included).
> There's sade and I am working on a tool to browse and add packages from
> the installation media and / or the ftp mirrors.
Ron McDowell and I are working on a new tool named "bsdconfig(8)" which is very
modular and written in sh(1).
bsdconfig(8) is designed squarely at reimplementing all of the sysinstall(8)
post-install bits so that we can cleanly whack sysinstall(8) without the prior
complaints.
The portion of bsdconfig(8) that will handle browsing and adding of packages
from either the installation media or ftp mirrors is incomplete at the moment,
and we'd love it if you were willing to either:
(a) download the preliminary framework for bsdconfig(8) and start working on
the packages module, or
(b) join the SourceForge CVS project and start working on bsdconfig(8) in
realtime with Ron and I
NOTE: Choice of either option will result in further information being
disbursed for your digestive pleasure.
So far, bsdconfig(8) has the 8529 lines of code (counting all modules,
internationalization files, and Makefiles) with the following
modules/components (status listed for each):
1. Distributions
Description: Install additional distribution sets
Status: pending development
2. Documentation installation
Description: Install FreeBSD Documentation set
Status: Done. Links to "bsdinstall docsinstall"
3. Packages
Description: Install Pre-packaged Software
Status: pending development
4. Password
Description: Set Root Password
Status: pending development
5. Fdisk
Description: Fdisk Partition Editor
Status: pending development
Note: Could be linked directly to sade(8)
6. Disklabel
Description: Disk Label Editor
Status: pending development
Note: Could be linked directly to sade(8)
7. Login/Group Management
Description: Add user's login and group information
Status: Done (by Ron McDowell)
8. Console
Description: Console Settings
Status: pending development
9. Timezone
Description: Set up Time Zone
Status: Done (by Devin Teske; me)
NOTE: Functionality shamelessly ripped from my ports addition: sysutils/tzdialog
10. Media Selection
Description: Select Media to Install From
Status: pending development
11. Mouse
Description: Configure the Mouse
Status: pending development
12. Networking Management
Description: Setup Networking interfaces, services, etc.
Status: Done (by Devin Teske; me)
NOTE: Functionality shamelessly ripped from my ports addition:
sysutils/host-setup
13. Security
Description: Set Security Parameters
Status: pending development
14. Startup
Description: Set Startup Parameters
Status: pending development
15. Ttys
Description: Configure Ttys
Status: pending development
I am currently working on the framework some more and then I'm going to jump
over to working on #14 "Startup".
As you can see from the above-list, we have quite a bit of functionality to
migrate from sysinstall(8) over to bsdconfig(8) -- however the most difficult
bits (user management, network management, and timezone have all been done so
the rest should fall like a house of cards -- especially since we have really
nice modular includes making the modules nice and light-weight).
--
Devin
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